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November 4th, 1988...

Today is Friday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"Groovy Kind of Love"
by Phil Collins

In the UK:
"Orinoco Flow"
by Enya
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Clawsons of Ohio

(TIME Cover: October the 31st, 1988)

 Famous people born on the 4th of November:

1448 - King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)
1470 - King Edward V of England, one of the two princes in the Tower
1901 - Princess Bang-ja of Korea (d. 1989)
1923 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (d. 2002)
1944 - Scherrie Payne, American singer (The Supremes)
1946 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
1956 - James Honeyman-Scott, English guitarist (The Pretenders) (d. 1982)
1969 - Sean Jean 'Diddy' Combs, American rapper

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1988


Naguib Mahfouz
1911-2006

who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind

Egypt



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1988 (USA)



$0.89
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1988

Rain Man
directed by Barry Levinson
with Dustin Hoffman (Raymond Babbitt)

Designed in 1988

The Paris chair
by André Dubreuil

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Johnny Carson & David Letterman / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 538, November 3, 1988

 

 
 
 
     

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